Maid for My Nemesis novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Keys
I did not wait for the assembly to let out.
I went through the side door he had used, and across the faculty lot.
I ran down the school drive in my good shoes.
The house on Orchard Road is a mile from campus.
I know, because I have walked it in rain, and in the dark, and once with a bucket.
I had never run it before.
By the time I reached the gate, my side hurt.
My curls were stuck to my cheeks, and my mended blazer was open and flapping.
The gravel drive was empty.
No truck, no movers, no black car.
Only the big stone house, gray against a gray November sky, with the windows blank and the lawn gone brown.
He was sitting on the front steps.
He was in his school shirt, with no coat, and his elbows were on his knees, and his glasses were in his hand.
On the step beside him, in the light, lay a ring of keys.
There were six or seven, on a brass loop, and they looked small.
I stopped at the bottom of the steps, and I could not speak for a moment because I was breathing too hard.
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